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January 31

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on January 31. From 1900 until now. January 31 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Justin Timberlake (1981), Portia de Rossi (1973) and Omraam Mikhaël Aivanhov (1900). Several movies were released around January 31 over the years, such as La Dolce Vita in 1960 directed by Federico Fellini and Patton in 1970 directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
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2019 American singer Mariah Carey performs her concert in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, despite Saudi women's rights activists calling for her to cancel it. (ABC News)
2018 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): A BBC study finds that, as of October 2017[update], the Taliban presently maintains control of or has some territorial presence in 70% of Afghanistan, with full control of 14 districts (totaling 4% of the country) and demonstrating an open physical militant presence in 263 others (encompassing the remaining 66% of the group's occupied territory). (Reuters)
2017 Syrian Civil War: The Syrian opposition agrees to surrender their remaining villages in the stretch between the Wadi Barada area and the Lebanon-Syria border, as well as the Rankous borderange for transportation of at least 250 rebel fighters to their stronghold in the Idlib Governorate. (Al Masdar News)
2016 Boko Haram insurgency: 2016 Dalori attack: At least 100 people are killed and hundreds others injured in an attack by Boko Haram militants on Dalori Village 4 kilometers from Maiduguri, Nigeria. (Sahara Reporters)
2015 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine: Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists conduct peace talks as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine. (Reuters)
2014 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Israeli Air Force strikes targets in the Gaza Strip in response to ongoing rocket fire from the Palestinian territory. (Jerusalem Post)
2013 2013 Pretoria train collision: Two passenger trains packed with schoolchildren and rush-hour commuters collide near Pretoria, South Africa, injuring up to 300 people in a crash. (BBC) (Reuters) (AFP via Google)
2012 The People's Republic of China claims that 29 Chinese citizens abducted while working on a construction project in the Sudan are still missing. (AP via ABC News America)
2011 2011 Egyptian protests:
2010 Gunmen open fire on a student party in Ciudad Juárez, killing at least 13. (BBC) (Times of India)
2009 In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
2008 Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for US$44.6 billion: US$31 per share in cash and stock.
2007 Delta Air Lines creditors officially reject US Airways' hostile takeover bid.
2006 Samuel Alito is sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
2005 Arab–Israeli conflict: A ten-year-old Palestinian girl dies after being shot in the head as she played in her school playground in Rafah. The source of the gunfire is disputed. Hamas launches mortar shells in retaliation, damaging a house in an Israeli settlement. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) (Jerusalem Post) (BBC) (CBS) (Haaretz)
2004 The United States defense budget is set to exceed US$400 billion next year—an almost 7% increase—according to budget proposals inadvertently posted on the Pentagon's website.
2003 The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2002 A large section of the Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf begins disintegrating, consuming about over 35 days.
2001 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
1999 The Denver Broncos win their second consecutive Super Bowl, defeating the Atlanta Falcons, 34-19, in Super Bowl XXXIII.
1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
1997 Final Fantasy VII is released in Japan.
1996 Colombo Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
1995 U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
1994 Barcelona opera theater Gran Teatro del Liceo burns down
1993 St Joan opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 49 performances
1992 MTA raised tolls on most NYC bridges from $2.50 to $3.00
1991 Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
1990 1st ever all-sports daily National begins publishing
1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes, Washington, USA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil.
1987 44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win.
1986 In Ohio, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurs.
1985 South African President PW Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence.
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1982 12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13
1981 The Tide Is High by Blondie hits #1
1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41.
1978 Elvis: The Legend Lives! opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 performances
1977 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
1976 Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308.
1975 John Lennon releases #9 Dream
1973 Pan American and Trans World Airlines cancelled their options to buy 13 Concorde airliners.
1972 US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998).
1971 & Dave Bancroft and George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1970 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
1969 Beatles perform last live gig (42-min concert on roof of Apple HQs)
1968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32 inches), at Agata, USSR.
1967 West Germany and Romania establish diplomatic relations.
1966 USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon
1965 Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
1964 US report Smoking and Health connects smoking to lung cancer.
1962 Gen Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
1961 Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury / Redstone 2
1960 Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress / singer Phyllis Newman in New York City
1959 Joe Cronin signs seven-year pact to become head of American League.
1958 Jackpot Bowling premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host
1957 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished.
1956 Juscelino Kubitschek becomes President of Brazil.
1955 RCA demonstrates first music synthesizer.
1953 Princess Victoria capsized off Stanraer Scotland
1952 Harry Heilmann and Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1950 US President Harry Truman reveals that he ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1949 1st daytime soap on TV These Are My Children (NBC in Chicago)
1948 Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway.
1947 The Communists take power in Poland.
1946 Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1945 American Private Edward Donald Slovik, age 25, is executed by firing squad for desertion, the first such execution since the US Civil War.
1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland
1943 39 U-boats sunk this month (203,100 ton)
1942 62 U-boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)
1941 21 U-boats sunk this month (127,000 ton)
1940 40 U-boats sunk this month (111,000 ton)
1936 Green Hornet radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
1935 30.5 cm (12.0 inches) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record).
1934 FDR devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
1933 French government of Edouard Daladier takes power.
1932 US railway unions accept 10 percent wage reduction.
1930 First US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1929 Erich Maria Remarques publishes Im West nieces Neues in Berlin
1928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company.
1927 International allies' military command in Germany disbands.
1926 British and Belgian troops leave Cologne.
1925 Premier Ahmed Zogu (Zogu I) becomes President of Albania.
1920 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates.
1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship.
1916 Dutch Girl Guides form.
1915 WWI: Germany's first large-scale use of poison gas as a weapon occurs when 18,000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas are fired on the Imperial Russian Army on the Rawka River west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov however, freezing temperatures prevent it being effective.
1906 Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter
1905 Carroll Wright appointed first US Commissioner of Labor.
1901 Boer General John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal.
1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
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